Major Problem with XP for me, please help, really want XP back.

[ShooTmE]

OK, here's my story...
So I'm playing Sim City 4 Rush Hour Expansion and i decided to quit. So i quit and restarted my computer. BIG mistake, because when it booted up i got a blue screen saying incompatable hardware or something in which i didn't install any hardware anyway and all my current hardware been working since i got my computer. Anyway so it said to restart and i did. Showed up again, and again, and again!!! So i decided, clean install. So i pop in my Windows XP Professional CD and set to boot. It boots up fine and i agree to the liscence and what not. Then the last screen came up saying its done and it going to restart. So usually i take my CD out and when the windows splash screen comes up i pop it in and go through the rest of the setup. So i do that but only the setup restarted. I kept retrying to get it going but it kept restarting the install again and again. So i been trying to figure out what it is and this is what i discovered/did:
1) It's NOT my hardware, its all running just fine.
2) It's not my mistake of not knowing how to install it because i have installed it 999999999 other times. (With a bit of exzageration but you get the point. )
3) I nuked my hard drive clean
4) I HAVE found the problem and need a fix.

OK, so i installed Daemon Tools before (used to mount CD images virtually) and it was on my computer. I had a sneaking suspicion that it was that $#*&ing Piece of %$#@!! Anyway so i popped in my XP Cd and went to repair console. Heres what i typed and got:
C:\WINDOWS>DISABLE Daemon
The system registry does not appear to have an active control set key.
The system registry be damaged
If your system is currently not restarting correctly, you can try restarting it with the last known good configuration or you can try repairing the installation of windows using the setup programs repair and recovery options.
The registry entry for Daemon service was found.
The service is missing the start value key.
The system registry may be damaged
If your system is currently not restarting correctly, you can try restarting it with the last known good configuration or you can try repairing the installation of windows using the setup programs repair and recovery options.
The system registry maybe damaged.

I'm am currently talking to you from LindowsOS 4.0 ( I HATE IT!! I HATE IT!! I HATE IT!! I HATE IT!! I HATE IT!! ) and i really want back Windows XP Professional. I think that the registry is problem because i tried other things other people told me to try like check hardware, reburn the disk because it can wear out and trying different configurations and nukeing my hard drive, which may i bring to point gives me a whole new error from nukeing, maybe its one time only because i only tried it once since, which is something about

system read error press ctrl, alt & delete to restart.

So any registry expert please tell me what that means. I don't know my way around the registry too good and about it. PLEASE HELP!!!

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[EzyStvy]

Wow. Barely made it through the RED ink....

I'm betting your ram chip is faulty...

[ShooTmE]

mabey but i see no performance decrease and i can run everything else just the same. How could i tell?

[EzyStvy]

If you have two chips - take one out at a time and see what it does.

[ShooTmE]

Nope aint got 2 chips. Also i have noticed that Windows XP is the only OS that I have problems with. I just installed Redhat Linux ad i tihnk it's here to stay.

[ShooTmE]

well i just checked out all my games and programs and they r all compatable with linux and linux is perfict for programming on, and also very stable, so i gonna keep it over xp. but i still wanna know whats wrong with xp tho.

[andyms18a]

xp is very very fussey with ram i have a system that runs every other ms operating system except xp and its the 512mb of kingston ram thats the problam if i chang it xp runs fine